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  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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China

Asia Pacific

A state-directed economy where the banking system, land sales and local-government finance are policy instruments rather than markets, so political access matters more to returns than reported accounts.

Books 9Experts 1Recommenders 5

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  1. China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to KnowArthur R. Kroeber, 2016
  2. How Asia WorksJoe Studwell, 2013
  3. Red CapitalismCarl E. Walter, Fraser J. T. Howie, 2011
How Asia WorksHow Asia Works
T1 How Asia Works
Joe Studwell · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why some Asian nations grew rich: land reform, export-led industry, directed credit.

“it's a good read for anyone who wants to understand what actually determines whether a developing economy will succeed.” — Bill Gates

Source: Gates Notes review of How Asia Works

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison

Red CapitalismRed Capitalism
T2 Red Capitalism
Carl E. Walter, Fraser J. T. Howie · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

How China's state-run financial system really works behind its official figures.

Markets over MaoMarkets over Mao
T2 Markets over Mao
Nicholas R. Lardy · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Data showing China's growth came from private firms, not the state sector.

Dealing with ChinaDealing with China
T2 Dealing with China
Henry M. Paulson · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Twenty-five years negotiating with Chinese officials, from Goldman to the Treasury.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Anthony Pompliano and 1 other

China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to KnowChina's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know
T2 China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know
Arthur R. Kroeber · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

A question-and-answer guide to how China's economy works.

The State Strikes BackThe State Strikes Back
T2 The State Strikes Back
Nicholas R. Lardy · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

How China's state sector returned after 2012 and slowed growth.

Red RouletteRed Roulette
T2 Red Roulette
Desmond Shum · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

Insider account of doing deals through Party patronage, and losing everything.

The China DreamThe China Dream
T3 The China Dream
Joe Studwell · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why foreign investors' hopes of profit in 1990s China were mostly disappointed.

China's Great Wall of DebtChina's Great Wall of Debt
T3 China's Great Wall of Debt
Dinny McMahon · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Local-government financing vehicles, shadow banking and the property build-out.

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